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2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle identifies vehicles and/or passers-by and/or other objects and/or weather conditions in its surroundings during the stop using the at least one surroundings sensor, and ascertains as the additional pieces of information, and/or a status, and/or a number, and/or an arrangement and/or a movement status of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles and/or the passers-by and/or the other objects and/or the weather conditions, identified by the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle.
3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein, during the stop, the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle ascertains, as the additional piece of information, instantaneous weather conditions at its whereabouts using the at least one surroundings sensor.
5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the external server sends a request relating to particular additional pieces of information to the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to request the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to convey to the server the particular additional pieces of information from at least one geographical position, and the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle ascertains the requested particular additional pieces of information and sends the requested particular additional pieces of information to the external server as a response to the request.
6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle ascertains its geographical position using a satellite-assisted navigation unit and/or using a feature map, and sends the ascertained geographical position in a form of data to the external server.
7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the external server receives corresponding additional pieces of information and associated geographical positions from multiple vehicles and uses the received corresponding additional pieces of information and the received associated geographical positions for ascertaining at least one piece of status information for at least one geographical position.
8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the additional pieces of information are transmitted from the at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to the external server using a car-to-x communication link, of a mobile radio communication link and/or of another wireless communication link.
11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the vehicle or the external server includes an artificial intelligence.
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November 22, 2022
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